Diesel Technology Forum praises Clean Air reauthorization bill

WASHINGTON (April 20, 2016) — The Diesel Technology Forum has praised four U.S. senators for introducing legislation to reauthorize the Clean Air program to reduce emissions from older diesel-powered trucks, school buses and construction equipment.

The new bill would reauthorize the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) until 2021, the forum said in an April 20 news release. Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Del., was the chief sponsor, with Sens. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., James Inhofe, R-Okla., and Shelley Moore Caputo, R-W. Va., as co-sponsors.

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Since first being authorized in 2005, DERA has had the support of organizations including the American Lung Association, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Defense Fund, the forum said.

Between 2008 and 2013, funding provided by DERA has replaced or retrofitted more than 73,000 vehicles and pieces of diesel-powered equipment, according to the forum.

This in turn has reduced particulate matter emissions by 14,700 tons, saved 450 million gallons of fuel and generated almost $13 billion in environmental benefits, it said.

More information about DERA and other clean diesel programs is on the forum's website.

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